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How sacrilege is it?

Paint it black?

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#41
Bent77 said:
Should I strip down my 2010 Squier CV-P in sonic blue and paint it black?
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i love black EBs! i voted "yes." it's your ax and it certainly wouldn't be "sacrilege."

but if you can afford it: getting another body (or another instrument, altogether) is worth considering. good luck with your 'change of scenery'! :thumbsup:
 
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#50
Lo-E said:
Personally, I like the blue but we're talking about an inexpensive bass here (and I'm not suggesting anything about its quality or playability by that statement, more just pointing out that it's neither a big investment nor anything rare or difficult to replace) so you should do what makes you happy.

About 25 years ago I took a 1986 Fender Japan P-bass (then only worth about $250-300) to a local auto body shop and had it painted. The owner was a guitarist who painted his own kit guitars.
The bass started out candy-apple red. I don't like red guitars. I had him paint it a Honda metallic green. Sacrilege? I dunno.... maybe. I don't care; I still have it, I still gig with it and I still like how it looks. The paint job has held up great and still looks really good. If I had left it red I almost certainly would have sold it and I would have missed out on years of playing a bass I really like.
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Did/does it have a serial number beginning with the letter E ?
 
#53
Sure, why not. If you're diggin' black more than the sonic blue, make it so. Nice thing about a refinish, especially if you vibe with this bass to begin with, is it's still your bass with that same familiar feel/sound you've become accustom to only more aesthetically pleasing to you. Besides, refinishing projects are fun.
 
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#56
Slater said:
You don’t have to strip down the original finish. That would be a lot of unnecessary work. You already have a sealed body. Just rough up the original finish with some 400 grit sandpaper, thoroughly clean off the sanding dust, and shoot it with the black paint.
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If it’s poly it only takes a heat gun and about an hour to have it down to the sanding sealer. Granted, it will need to be prepped and painted, but it’s nothing you would not be doing if you painted over the existing hard plastic shell.
 
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#58
Bent77 said:
Should I strip down my 2010 Squier CV-P in sonic blue and paint it black?



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I wouldn't refinish that bad boy. I have one just like it only it came to me with a tortoise shell pickguard that I thought was a very cool look. However, once Fender came out with their newer AVRI series that included what I believe to be their best reissue ever: the '63 Precision in sonic blue with a mint green pickguard, I knew I had to have that combination so I switched out the tortoise shell pickguard to one of my other P-Basses and replaced it with a mint green one and it is a very cool look. I thought it was surf looking with the tortoise shell pickguard over sonic blue but with the mint green one instead ... faggedaboudit ... it's about as surf as surf gets.
 
#60
It’s your bass and it’s not like there aren’t more of them out there. Go for it. It isn’t a precious work of art, it’s a mass produced bass. Have fun. Or trade the body to someone who wants your color and has a black one.
 

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